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Date:      Thu, 10 Jun 1999 13:44:55 +0100
From:      Stuart Henderson <stuart@eclipse.net.uk>
To:        Bill Vermillion <bill@bilver.magicnet.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD-isp@FreeBSD.Org
Subject:   Re: Finding what user's previous password was.
Message-ID:  <375FB347.678E2667@eclipse.net.uk>
References:  <199906092223.SAA83399@bilver.magicnet.net>

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> > ..or it's still in /var/backups/master.passwd.bak
> 
> However it's encoded.  To prove the the user that it had
> not changed you'd neet to take the password the user thinks he
> had an encrypt it with the same salt - otherwise you have one
> chance of 4096 of them matching.

Unless you copy and paste it to the master.passwd file and
get him to try logging in with it :)


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